Category: Interviews

TEN: Starting in 2013, each Friday, Innocent Words started shining the spotlight directly on up and coming artists/bands with 10 questions we like to call IW10. Hometown: Ardmore, Oklahoma Members and instruments: Jeff Hobbs, guitar/vocals Brad Sosebee, keyboards/vocals Walton McMurry,…

TEN: Starting in 2013, each Friday, Innocent Words started shining the spotlight directly on up and coming artists/bands with 10 questions we like to call IW10. Hometown: Nashville, TN (but my home-hometown is Swainsboro, GA) Members and Instruments: I play…

Early In 2013 the stars aligned and brought together three iconic musicians to form one hell of a supergroup entitled KXM. Taking a letter from each member’s main band, KXM consisted of bassist and vocalist Dug Pinnick (King’s X), guitar…

Celebrating 15 Years of Innocent Words: Musicians Interview Troy Michael Part 3 What started on a whim over a lunch one day back in 2001, has turned into 15 years of Innocent Words. February 2002 was the first official issue…

No need to rush a good thing. Southern California band The Bombpops formed in 2007, but it’s taken almost a decade for the foursome to put out their first full length album. So why the wait? “It might seem like…

Interview & Photos by Sluggo Cawley of the Grannies It is New Year’s Eve at the TD Garden (formerly the Fleet Center and before that The Boston Garden) in Boston MA, home of both the Boston Celtics and the Boston…

Los Angeles-based alternative rock group That Dog came to prominence in the early 1990s behind a string of 7-inch releases which led to the band signing to DGC Records and their self-titled debut in 1994. With a punk power pop…

Given the current political climate, it would be easy to assume Craig Finn was thinking of a Post-Trump world when he named his latest record ‘We All Want The Same Things.’ “The title actually came from one of the songs,…

In one-way or another, Dan Dixon has earned a lot of ink in Innocent Words. Whether it was in our infancy as a print magazine where we gushed over Dixon’s band Dropsonic or covered bands he has produced in his…

L Larissa Sapko had a short to-do list after moving to Philadelphia. Up high on that list? Start a band. She can certainly check that one off as Loose Tooth is about to turn in their latest effort, ‘Big Day,’…

TEN: Starting in 2013, each Friday, Innocent Words started shining the spotlight directly on up and coming artists/bands with 10 questions we like to call IW10. Hometown: Darnestown, Maryland, and proud of it. Members and Instruments: Bari Leigh for solo…

TEN: Starting in 2013, each Friday, Innocent Words started shining the spotlight directly on up and coming artists/bands with 10 questions we like to call IW10. Hometown: Kansas City Instruments you play: David – Vocals, Guitars, Lead Guitars, Bass, Songwriting!…

TEN: Starting in 2013, each Friday, Innocent Words started shining the spotlight directly on up and coming artists/bands with 10 questions we like to call IW10. Hometown: San Francisco Instruments you play: Guitar, banjo, ukulele. On the horizon: I want…

The word “outlaw” gets thrown about quite a bit when journalists are talking about revered singer-songwriter Nikki Lane, but for me, she embodies the work of a modern-day renaissance woman. Lane was born in Greenville, South Carolina where she dropped…